A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (2024-2026) led by Anja Thomas

The legitimacy of governance within the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is controversial. Conflicts arise within the daily democratic practices of domestic policy elites, notably during the budgetary exercises of the European Semester, highlighting a considerable gap in existing literature. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the D-EMU project will apply a mix of interdisciplinary methods to examine four pivotal cases – France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. It hopes to enhance our comprehension of legitimacy conflicts in the EMU and stimulate discussions on tailored democracy standards for EU decision-making. By focusing on data sustainability in qualitative research, D-EMU will contribute to the sustainability of qualitative research.

Anja Thomas is Associate Professor at the University of Lille from where she is seconded to the Hochschule Fulda, the French Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics and the European University Institute in the framework of D-EMU.